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However, there's possibly a technical argument in graphical user interface design that says that title case with little punctuation is more effective in feedback to users. That discussion would be best for another forum, however. Perhaps in User Experience?

The reason I posted this here is that I feel we have a social responsibility towards the children. We don't want to be responsible for teaching them bad grammar habits since we are an educational site. User Experience is of course important and it does need to be intuitive for the children but I guess there needs to be a balance in terms of our social responsibility as well as an effective User Experience. Thanks for answering
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Khuram MalikMay 17 '12 at 19:27

Although you're teaching word recognition, the whole experience should be useful to the child. So the text certainly should not have an initial capital on every word [is that really "sentence case"?] because that's not how language is used normally. The message is not a newspaper headline.

I'm not sure what age-group your game is aimed at, but I might think twice about the rather bald "Wrong answer" and prefer "That's not right" instead.

It's aimed at between 3 to 6 year olds. It's primarily a UK site but we do have a global audience, but great point regards the direct statement. It should not be so harsh.
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Khuram MalikMay 17 '12 at 19:25

I should have noticed the *.uk domain name. In that case, since Brits Don't do US-style Headlines, the messages should reflect British usage.
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Andrew Leach♦May 17 '12 at 21:02